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Louisville’s National Day of Civic Hacking event wrapped up this past Saturday May 31. How did it go? Success! The event was a huge success! The organizers, Louisville’s Civic Data Alliance, would like to thank everyone who participated including Greg Fischer (Louisville Metro’s Mayor), Ted Smith (City Innovation Director), and Tim Welsh (Metro CIO). We […]

YourMapper’s team at the Hacktucky hackathon took first place with our Next Bus project. SND hosted their international news design conference in Louisville this year, and 5 teams participated in an intense 24 hour hackathon to ship a locally focused product. The Next Bus uses TARC’s real-time bus data, merged with curated local events. Choose […]

Hack for Change Louisville is being held as the city’s formal National Day of Civic Hacking event. The day will bring together local government leaders and staff, local organizations, businesses, visitors, and community members and is focused on civic innovation. Success! The event was a huge success! Thanks for everyone who participated including Greg Fischer, Louisville […]

This weekend, Your Mapper participated in the national Code Across America: A Week of Civic Innovation event, the Code for America Hack-a-Thon, and pulled in a first place prize! The city of Louisville, the Mayor’s Office, Economic Growth and Innovation director Ted Smith, Louisville CIO Beth Niblock, and LVL1 hosted the event, organized by the Code […]

GovMapper has been selected by KSTC for the respected Kentucky Enterprise Fund grant this year! GovMapper helps local governments get their data online for the public. This grant will help us reach more city and state governments across the nation, and show them how to open data for their citizens, promoting transparency and saving them […]

Apps for Californians has announced its winners. The CA.gov-promoted mashup competition launched in June was a collaboration with Google, Microsoft, Center for Digital Government and ProgrammableWeb. Our Entry We grabbed the Cleanup Site and Permitted Facility data from the CA Department of Toxic Substances Control and created a California Environment Report. This mashup provides an interactive […]

We’ve gotten a number of great testimonials from our clients recently, and wanted to share some of what they have said about our mapping services. Our government customers find GovMapper’s services to be affordable, fast, and easy to implement. County-wide Property Values “The ease and speed of putting interactive property maps on our PVA site was […]

Google launched their revamped App Marketplace recently and Your Mapper is one of only two companies or individuals to have mapping services listed and be a Google Maps Qualified Developer in the United States. The other company is in Google’s home state of California, and there are 7 more internationally in Russia, Italy, Canada, the […]

NYC’s BigApps contest is coming to a close, with only 2 days left in the voting. Our submission is called NYC BigMaps, and if you haven’t supported us yet by voting, please take a moment to register then do so. This submission is a completely new website, targeted just to the citizens of New York, […]

Your Mapper has completed Google’s rigorous mapping certification process, and is one of the few developers to be listed in the brand new Google Qualified Developer Directory. The Google Qualified Developer program was designed to recognize Google API and developer tools experts, and to provide those in need of development support with a directory of […]